Shoot, forgot to do the New York City Marathon. Again. - @JimGaffigan...

It's common knowledge that drinking alcohol can im...  ...n knowledge that drinking alcohol can impair your memory but what about simply suggesting that you've drun...  ...?Turns out, alcohol placebos can also impair your memory and judgment:Subjects drank plain tonic water, bu...  ...nic; then all subjects took...

Who put this string on my finger? - @funnyoneliners...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have disco...  ...iscovered the neurochemical process that leads to memory formation, opening up the possibility of developi...  ...behavior therapy during the window, ensuring the memory

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have co...  ...ucted tests on a compound that slowed age-related memory loss in mice. An enzyme called 11 beta-hydroxyst...  ...lucocorticoids, a class of hormones, that enhance memory formation: The Edinburgh team showed that knoc...  ...ne for this enzyme in mice...

In 1993, when he was 58 years old, John Basinger (...  ...By age 74, he could recite books one and two from memory . After seeing JB perform, psychologist John Seamo...  ...mon was fascinated and arranged to test the man's memory . Seamon and his team asked JB to take part in te...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf9W7cxi48...  ...m which can lead to one telling a small lie in a memory and eventually believing that lie to be true fur...

Paul Reber, professor of psychology at Northwester...  ...ns. If each neuron could only help store a single memory , running out of space would be a problem. You mig...  ...at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2....

Studies performed at Kyoto University suggest that...  ...to University suggest that young chimpanzees have memory skills better than those of adult humans. When t...  ...with white squares, and they had to rely on their memory to press the right sequence. The young chimps too...

Psst! Got a tough exam in the morning? Here's an e...  ...ing specific sounds during deep sleep can improve memory and recall. [...]Scientists asked a group of stud...